Chris Tackett
Chris Tackett manages social media strategy and partnerships for TreeHugger. Chris joined the team in early 2008 and was also a part of Discovery's Planet Green network. Prior to Discovery and TreeHugger, Chris worked for The Raw Story and Lawrence.com as a writer and advertising manager. He has a degree in Journalism and Strategic Communications from The University of Kansas' William Allen White School of Mass Communication. When he's not working on TreeHugger, he likes to follow politics, camp, ride his bike, take pictures and learn to keep his plants alive.
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Latest Stories from Chris Tackett - Page 8
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Infographic explains "terrifying math of global warming"
A powerful infographic explains the math of climate change and why we must leave fossil fuels in the ground.
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Chances for slowing climate change "fading fast"
Well, this is not good. Scientists at Hawaii's Mauna Loa observatory have measured a large increase in CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Global temps higher now than for most of past 11,300 years. It's not a hockey stick. This is a scythe.
A new study into global warming finds that average global temperature was higher in past decade than in previous 11,300 years.
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US Forest Service returns to sensible fire management for 2013
Following a controversial decision in 2012 to launch an "aggressive initial attack” on all wildfires, however big or small, the US Forest Service spent $1.3 billion fighting fires, some $400 million over budget.
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29 Vermont towns vote to oppose tar sands exports
The Keystone XL pipeline isn't the only tar sands project facing opposition from the public. Vermont residents voted to oppose the use of an existing pipeline for the transportation of Canadian tar sands oil.
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On Chavez, AP misses forest for the skyscraper
An Associated Press report on the death of Hugo Chavez suggests Chavez wasted money on health care when he could have built giant skyscrapers. It's a lesson on our distorted value system.
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State Dept.'s Keystone XL report written by TransCanada
Brad Johnson at Grist has an intriguing report on the insider access Trans Canada has in writing the environmental impact statement of their own Keystone XL pipeline.
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So, this climate change thing is real, confirms science
The New York Times reports on a new paper on how carbon dioxide influenced sharp global warming that ended the last ice age.
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How GM earns $1 billion recycling
Forbes reports on how General Motors is recycling or reusing "90 percent of its manufacturing waste."
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Is TV good for you?
Mark Oppenheimer at The New Republic writes about the role of television on the family dynamic.
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On the Media reports on 'Ag-Gag' censorship laws
On the Media had a good discussion with Will Potter about the so-called 'Ag-Gag' laws that aim to censor and punish individuals that document or expose abuse at factory farms.
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Tim Sessler's video poems on humans and nature
Drift by Tim Sessler shows a birds-eye view of an evening flight from San Francisco to Salt Lake City to Philadelphia.
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Obama nominates Gina McCarthy as new EPA chief
"Every American is—or will soon be—breathing cleaner air because of McCarthy," says Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch.
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Watch what 15,000 volts does to plywood
An interesting art/science video shows what happens when 15,000 volts of electricity travel through plywood. I don't want to ruin it for you, but FRACTALS!
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Climate change is happening now and economic costs are enormous
USA Today has a good cover story on the many ways climate change is impacting the economy, the military, the environment and human survival.
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State Department releases Keystone XL environment assessment
In an apparent Friday evening news dump, the State Department has released its environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline. It is not the news environmentalists had hoped for.
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The fight between dirty energy dinosaurs and clean-tech mammals
Grist and Bloomberg have good reports on what the future of clean energy looks like in the coming decade.
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Eco Market is like Etsy for Eco
Eco Market is bringing together organic and natural product producers in what has been called an "Etsy for Eco" model.
